The other half of the brain.

• Autores: R. Douglas Fields
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 4, 2004, págs. 54-61
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The recent book 'Driving Mr. Albert' tells the true story of pathologist Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy of Albert Einstein in 1955. After finishing his task, Harvey irreverently took Einstein's brain home, where he kept it floating in a plastic container for the next 40 years. From time to time Harvey doled out small brain slices to scientists and pseudoscientists around the world who probed the tissue for clues to Einstein's genius. One of those scientists was Marian C. Diamond who discovered that Einstein's brain contained a greater concentration of glia or nonneuronal cells. Evidence that glia communicate with each other. INSET: GLIA CONTROL SYNAPSES.